Approach to Surface Analysis (I)

Aspects of Surface Analysis

Abstract

The aspects of surface analyses are summarized to afford a birds-eye-view of typical surface analytical techniques to corrosion scientists and engineers in order to choose the proper analytical methods for acquiring surface information on appearance, chemical composition and lateral distribution of a specific element, elemental distribution in depth, defects and electrical characters. The comparison of typical surface analytical terms, such as lateral and depth resolution, sensitivities is presented. Several exercises are given to help make the readers familiar with solving surface analytical problems.